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 United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Summary Record - Croatia
The Croatian Government was still trying to find solutions and, guided by the principles to which she had just referred, would solve problems on a case-by-case basis.
In the placement of disabled children in foster families, for which there was a long waiting list, and the award of custody to children whose parents were separated, for example, those who considered the wait too long or whose request had not been met attributed that wait or refusal to their ethnic origin.
The Croatian authorities preferred to have recourse to adoption, particularly since possible foster families were often motivated by the children's work potential, particularly in agricultural regions, or by the financial assistance which the children might receive from the State.
www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/(Symbol)/CRC.C.SR.280.En?Opendocument   (5304 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Slavic languages (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The Polish Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski and the Croatian Baroque writers of sixteenth century all wrote in their respective vernaculars (though Polish itself had drawn amply on Latin in the same way Russian would eventually draw on Church Slavonic).
It began with the Vinodol Codex and continued through the Renaissance until the codifications of Serbo-Croatian in 1850, though much of the literature between 1300 and 1500 was written in much the same mixture of the vernacular and Church Slavonic as prevailed in Russia and elsewhere.
Similarly, in the Republic of Dubrovnik, Croatian became an official language in parallel to Ragusan Dalmatian and Latin.
www.nationmaster.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Slavic-languages   (7034 words)

  
 Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A tribe of Croats came to the Roman provinces of Dalmatia and Pannonia in the 7th century and was assimilated into the larger native population which took the name of the Croats.
In 1995, the Croatian Army successfully launched two major offensives to retake the rebel areas by force, leading to a mass displacement of the Serbian population from those areas.
The Croatian Parliament (Sabor) is a unicameral legislative body of not less than 100 and not more than 160 representatives, all elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms.
www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Croatia   (1729 words)

  
 Croatian Studies
The conflict between Croatian and Serbian nationalism was not the main cause of the persecutions and the civil war because these conflicts were solved in the past by peaceful means and not by the use of force.
Its ecclesiastical-hierarchical and autonomous organs were the Patriarch of the Croatian Orthodox Church and the Metropolitan of Zagreb, the Holy Archidiaconal Synod, the High Church Court, the episcopate, the parish church courts, the archidiaconal dignitaries, the priests and the church administrative councils.
The formation of the Croatian Orthodox Church and its relationship with the Catholic Church in Croatia shows that the Croatian Orthodox Church was not established with "anti-Catholic tendencies", neither was its intention to "attract" the Serbs.
www.croatianstudies.org /index.php?action=page&id=67   (12518 words)

  
 [CTRL] FW: VATICAN LAW SUIT - circulate widely
In his letter, Pavelic explained to Hitler the wishes of the Croatian people to join the battle of "all freedom loving nations against Communism." Pavelic offered ground, sea and air forces, to be committed "as soon as possible" to fight alongside Germany.
Croatian troops assisted the German occupiers of Ukraine in their systematic plunder and looting of Ukrainian resources and individual property.
In exchange for the Croatian assistance in Ukraine, the Ustasha were given a free hand in Croatia and Bosnia to loot, plunder and terrorize the non-Croatian populace.
www.mail-archive.com /ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg34968.html   (4830 words)

  
 COLUMBUS AND CROATIANS By Adam S
In 1992 to state or assume that Croatians participated in discovery of new lands and were with Columbus would not be believed and probably questioned in many circles.
The 1400's-1650's were in fact a golden age for Croatia disproportionate to her size in territory and population, considering the Ottoman Turk invasion and conquest up to Croatian-Dalmatia and the Republic of Ragusa.
In fact, some compilers of lists simply changed place names under the assumption that the place name should have been a Spanish place name as it was similar to the name recorded on the original document.
www.croatians.com /columbus_and_croatians_by_adam_s.htm   (2374 words)

  
 Guidelines for DBM List Checkers
The BHGS have recently started to publish a smaller set of "Army List Interpretations" for use in their competitions and those documents may also be of interest to players and umpires.
Sometimes an external ally is listed in the army lists with a restriction on the maximum number of elements in the allied command.
The list doesn't specify the armament of the Heerban Ps(O).
iworg.com /rob/listguide.html   (12101 words)

  
 List of Croatians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of prominent individuals who are Croatian people.
Stjepan Radić - Croatian national leader in 1st half of 20.
Croatian literature (includes a list of Croats in literature)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Croatians   (1172 words)

  
 Croatia: Map, History and Much More from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1527 the Croatian feudal lords agreed to accept the Hapsburgs as their kings in return for common defense and retention of their privileges.
During this stage of the war, the independence of Croatia was recognized by the international community, while the Serbs proclaimed their own state, the "so-called" Republic of Serbian Krajina, and by early 1992, troops were entrenched.
The war ended in 1995, when the Croatian Army successfully launched two major offensives to retake the rebel areas by force, leading to a mass displacement of the hundreds of thousands local Serbs from those areas into Serbia and Serb controlled parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Republika Srpska).
www.answers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/croatia   (4633 words)

  
 West Virginia History Volume 52
Croatian immigrants gravitated toward coal and steel in America and on the ship Elekes met a woman bound for Farmington, West Virginia, where her husband supposedly earned five dollars a day in the mines.
Croatians] who at the sight of blood became like wild men." This account agreed with the public assessment offered by the detectives hired by the coal company.
Prpic, Croatian Immigrants, 133, 157, 178-82 and Robert E. Wilson and Frank A. Zabrosky, Resources on the Ethnic and the Immigrant in the Pittsburgh Area, 1st.
www.wvculture.org /History/journal_wvh/wvh52-4.html   (10694 words)

  
 Northwest Croatians
Croatian American chef John Sarich host of Best of Taste, one of America's finest chefs, incorporates Croatian cooking styles inhis cookbooks and television shows.
Croatian musical artists on tour often perform here and Croatian Cultural Events are held here regularly.
This is the oldest Croatian immigrant organization founded in 1894, It is based in Pittsburgh, PA. Several hundred lodges in the United States, Canada and now in Croatia organize well over 100,000 members.
groups.msn.com /NorthwestCroatians/links.msnw   (247 words)

  
 Re: List otwarty[FWD]
Together we introduced the film "The Righteous Enemy." A >segment of the documentary deals with the Italian occupation of the >Croatian province of Dalmatia where my entire family was killed during >the Second World War.
I am opposed to persecution >of civilians, as much as the directors of the American Jewish Congress >and the American Jewish Committee are.
When they asked me to >translate, the American Jewish Congress was not aware that the prisoners >were not held in Serbian but in a Croatian detention camp.
www.mail-archive.com /poland-l@listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/msg03563.html   (2397 words)

  
 RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
According to analysts such as the independent Balkan news service AIM, Croatians voted against the Tudjman dictatorship's persecution of oppositionists and widespread violations of human rights and democratic norms, which had also led to the country's isolation in the international community.
Within a week of her inauguration, Vike-Freiberga won universal praise for her decision on 14 July to veto the law, even though the law had passed by a large majority.
She sent the bill back to the parliament with a list of concerns, taking into account the recommendations and criticisms levelled against it from international organizations, such as the OSCE.
www.rferl.org /reports/watchlist/2000/01/2-130100.asp   (2363 words)

  
 Croatia information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Croatia (Croatian: Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Republika Hrvatska), is a country in Europe bordering the Mediterranean, Central Europe and the Balkans.
In recent history, it was a republic in the SFR Yugoslavia, but it achieved independence in 1991.
Along with Slovenia, Croatia declared her independence from Yugoslavia on June 25, 1991, which triggered the Croatian War of Independence.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /reference/Croatia   (1778 words)

  
 The History Guy: The War List
Lists of wars throughout history and from around the world
War List Page Format: the format used for these lists is fairly simple.
If a conflict can be broken up into one or more component parts, the secondary wars are listed below the primary war and are indented to show they "belong" to it.
www.historyguy.com /War_list.html   (3757 words)

  
 Immigration to America
U.S Census Bureau: Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population - Table 4 shows the Region and Country or Area of Birth of the Foreign-Born Population, With Geographic Detail Shown in Decennial Census Publications of 1930 or Earlier: 1850 to 1930 and 1960 to 1990.
American Immigration - This page list reasons for immigration, who the immigrants were, peaks/waves of immigration, methods of transportation to America, and lots of other information organized by time periods of American history.
List of Famous Chinese Americans - List of famous Chinese Americans who have made significant contributions to the American culture or society artistically or scientifically, or have appeared in the news numerous times:
www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listimmigratli.html   (823 words)

  
 GORAN VISNJIC at THESPIAN NET
In fact, his community consisted of a small Croatian town off the Adriatic Sea where he whiled away his childhood with two brothers.
From early on, Goran found himself leaning towards the performing arts, and the youngest son of a bus driver father and salesclerk mother, was reciting poetry and landing lead roles in school plays by the time he was nine.
Voted as one of People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful in 2000, Goran moved into the role of Nicole Kidman's abusive boyfriend in "Practical Magic", but it was only after landing the role in the hospital drama "ER" that his popularity grew along with his fanbase.
www.thespiannet.com /actors/V/visnjic_goran   (415 words)

  
 Five Thousand Days Gallery - The Digital Journalist
I was in Bosnia, on assignment for Time magazine, when fierce fighting broke out between Croatians and the Bosnian army in the old city of Mostar.
While I was photographing from an apartment complex that divided the two sides, my guide was shot by a Bosnian sniper.
The two Croatian soldiers in the photo gave covering fire so that we could make an escape.
www.digitaljournalist.org /issue0410/bppa20.html   (158 words)

  
 Clintons to become the nation's No. 1 commuter marriage couple Banned sect holds conference despite stern warnings ...
Norris told the BBC he thought the Conservatives were still "shellshocked" by the loss of chosen candidate Jeffrey Archer, a millionaire novelist who admitted last month that he had asked a friend to give him a false alibi in a libel case.
Today has been proclaimed a holiday, and mass transit was declared free for the day to enable Croats across the country to attend the funeral.
The criticism was all the more topical this time, just after the government proposed equality quotas to ensure that political parties put as many women as men on future voting lists.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=15298   (3294 words)

  
 User talk:Ante Perkovic - Medbib.com, the modern encyclopedia
The idea of him signing his name Pol and not in Latin Polo should be made mention of in the main article.
Now the Croatian article has nearly been written properly (It is now 70% complete).
In fact, it is now my aim to obtain an excellent quality Croatian translation through the help of expert Native Speakers such as you.
www.medbib.com /User_talk:Ante_Perkovic   (415 words)

  
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At that time the Croatian Army drove tens and tens of thousands of Serbs from their ancestral homes, killing many in the process.
It was forwarded from another list with no author attributed but rather indications that it was lifted from official NATO descriptions of that organization.
The point of submitting it to concerned lists is to suggest focusing on the date of the 50th anniversary of NATO (April 4, 1999) in letters to editor, demonstrations, etc., to do a "line by line" discussion of how (not) well has NATO fulfilled its expressed objectives.
www.xmission.com /pub/lists/abolition-usa/archive/v01.n095   (6585 words)

  
 Croatian genealogy, travel, translation; Watsonville
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon (~75 miles NW of Portland, at the mouth of the Columbia River).
There were 2 or 3 Croatians in Astoria before 1880 but the first who seems to have stuck around was Nick Devich (also spelled Davich and Devisch) who owned a restaurant there in 1881.
Below is a partial list of resources I found in a recent trip to Astoria.
www.croatia-in-english.com /com/ast.html   (562 words)

  
 FTR-184 Update on the Balkans Wars (Two 30-minute segments) $8
Reflecting the views of President Franjo Tudjman, fascism, anti-Serb sentiment, and anti-Semitism are resurgent among significant elements of the Croatian population.
That country's ethnic cleansing of hundred of thousands of Krajina Serbs in 1995 was greatly assisted by German and American support and weaponry, notably expert training provided by a "private" American company, MPRI (Military Professional Resources International).
These allegations entail Vatican support for the purchase of weapons by the Croatian military during the civil war that culminated in Croatian secession.
www.spitfirelist.com /f184.html   (681 words)

  
 A List Apart | Stylegala   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
It all started out 1997 as a mailing list, and it has now grown to be one of the most respectable online publications about web standards and accessible design.
My first impression is that it is three columns including the logo 'list' that is 'apart' on the left but then I discover there's another column if I scroll.
A List Apart is in every designers bookmarks, not because of the layout but because of the content, and I think that if the design wasn't so easy to navigate most people wouldn't find the content and the site wouldn't be as successful.
www.stylegala.com /archive/a_list_apart.htm   (6522 words)

  
 World-Wide Web servers in Croatia
Denis Pleic is a court approved English to Croatian translator for all your legal documents.
ISKCON - Centar za vedske studije Zagreb (Hare Krishna centar) (in Croatian)
Natasa is a girl dying of leukemia who needs your help to complete the bone marrow transplant that may save her life.
balkansnet.org /croatia2.html   (831 words)

  
 Central Europe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
They were executed and their territories taken by the Arpads of Hungary.
The Slovenes are a Slavic people, closely related to Croatians.
This list traces the margraviate of Carniola, followed by the Duchy of Carniola (1590), the most significant political entity in the area until modern times.
www.hostkingdom.net /centeuro.html   (1696 words)

  
 List of collections in the Archive of Folk Culture (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
List of collections in the Archive of Folk Culture (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Collections are listed alphabetically by the primary name in the collection title.
There is no list of the titles of the tunes and songs.
www.loc.gov /folklife/guides/listofcollectionsE-K.html   (9540 words)

  
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I think that it is quite important as it is being used to rewrite the history of the region and to rehabilitate Croatia's fascist past, as well as encouraging a xenophobic and exclusive reinterpretation of the concept of Europe.
Cases of the sort mentioned by David Stampe in 2.786 of this list are also persuasive from my point of view, but because the derivational suffix has a syntactic function, they're more subject to fiddling with the relation between the components of the grammar.
At the same time, however, my Croatian gra- duate student was pained to have to refer to the language of her dissertation research as "Serbo-Croatian," out of fear that this would discredit her in seeking employment in Za- greb.
www.umich.edu /~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.801-850   (15444 words)

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